Beauty of Simplicity. Edwards County, KS. Photo credit: Selma Hukic (Peranovic)
About SCKSHCC
about the south central kansas Healthcare coalition (SCKSHCC)
The South Central Kansas Healthcare Coalition includes the following Kansas Counties: Barber, Barton, Butler, Comanche, Cowley, Edwards, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Kiowa, Marion, McPherson, Pawnee, Pratt, Reno, Rice, Sedgwick, Stafford, and Sumner.
We are a collaborative network of healthcare organizations, and their respective public and private sector response partners, that serve as a multi-agency coordinating group to enhance healthcare system preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation activities.
In other words, Healthcare Coalitions (HCC) are healthcare system partners that come together to plan strategies for responding to local events. Healthcare Coalitions train and exercise together to maximize local capabilities related to disaster planning, response, recovery and mitigation.
The development and sustainment of the SCKSHCC is a federal initiative and a requirement of the Healthcare Preparedness Program (HPP) Cooperative Agreement funded by the Health & Human Services (HHS), Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR).
The purpose of HCCs is to ensure local healthcare partners plan collaboratively for the risks facing their community and identify available local resources.
SCKSHCC also encourages the involvement of local, community-based partners. These memberships are crucial for ensuring the coordination of preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation activities. Essential partner members include:
Membership Criteria:
General Membership in the SCKSHCC is open to all entities or individuals that agree to work collaboratively on healthcare preparedness and emergency response activities. Members may attend any SCKSHCC meetings and have voice privileges on any issue of discussion. Providers requesting membership should submit their information to the Readiness & Response Coordinator (RRC) with a request for membership. An information packet requests general information that is submitted through the RRC after a request for membership is received.
Members of the SCKSHCC should make every attempt to:
Attend regularly scheduled meetings;
Communicate with their respective Executive Committee representative;
Participate in establishing priorities for the SCKSHCC;
Educate and inform member organizations about SCKSHCC activities and;
Participate in SCKSHCC sponsored trainings, exercises and drills.
Note: Active members are listed in the coalition member directory and have member-only website access. If you lose active member status, you will have to re-apply for membership.
The Coalition works to develop emergency preparedness and response systems and resources that provides an advantage to the entire community, not just Coalition members.
For more information about the South Central Kansas Healthcare Coalition, contact the Readiness and Response Coordinator at [email protected]. If you are ready to join, click the button below.
We are a collaborative network of healthcare organizations, and their respective public and private sector response partners, that serve as a multi-agency coordinating group to enhance healthcare system preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation activities.
In other words, Healthcare Coalitions (HCC) are healthcare system partners that come together to plan strategies for responding to local events. Healthcare Coalitions train and exercise together to maximize local capabilities related to disaster planning, response, recovery and mitigation.
The development and sustainment of the SCKSHCC is a federal initiative and a requirement of the Healthcare Preparedness Program (HPP) Cooperative Agreement funded by the Health & Human Services (HHS), Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR).
The purpose of HCCs is to ensure local healthcare partners plan collaboratively for the risks facing their community and identify available local resources.
SCKSHCC also encourages the involvement of local, community-based partners. These memberships are crucial for ensuring the coordination of preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation activities. Essential partner members include:
- Hospital (H)*
- Public Health (PH)*
- Emergency Management (EM)*
- Emergency Medical Services (EMS)*
- Religious Non-Medical Healthcare (RNHC)
- Ambulatory Surgical Center (ACS)
- Hospice
- Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility (PRTF)
- All Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)
- Transplant Center
- Long Term Care (LTC)
- Intermediate Care Facility for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICF/IID)
- Home Health Agency (HHA)
- Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Center (CORF)
- Critical Access Hospital (CAH)
- Clinic, Rehabilitation Agency, and Public Health Agency as Provider of Outpatient Physical Therapy and Speech-Language Pathology Services
- Community Mental Health Center (CMHC)
- Organ Procurement Organization (OPO)
- Rural Health Clinic (RHC)
- Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)
- End-Stage Renal Disease (RSRD) Facility
Membership Criteria:
General Membership in the SCKSHCC is open to all entities or individuals that agree to work collaboratively on healthcare preparedness and emergency response activities. Members may attend any SCKSHCC meetings and have voice privileges on any issue of discussion. Providers requesting membership should submit their information to the Readiness & Response Coordinator (RRC) with a request for membership. An information packet requests general information that is submitted through the RRC after a request for membership is received.
Members of the SCKSHCC should make every attempt to:
Attend regularly scheduled meetings;
Communicate with their respective Executive Committee representative;
Participate in establishing priorities for the SCKSHCC;
Educate and inform member organizations about SCKSHCC activities and;
Participate in SCKSHCC sponsored trainings, exercises and drills.
Note: Active members are listed in the coalition member directory and have member-only website access. If you lose active member status, you will have to re-apply for membership.
The Coalition works to develop emergency preparedness and response systems and resources that provides an advantage to the entire community, not just Coalition members.
For more information about the South Central Kansas Healthcare Coalition, contact the Readiness and Response Coordinator at [email protected]. If you are ready to join, click the button below.